sidetrack
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He turned down assisting a professor with data analysis for a book, for instance, because it would have required substantial changes to his class schedule that would sidetrack his early graduation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
When Devi tries to sidetrack Dr. Ryan, she pivots the conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
A chorus of economists, including Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary, say the banking sector instability should not sidetrack the Fed in its inflation-fighting campaign.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
“Don’t let short-term volatility sidetrack your goal and strategy to achieve long-term gains,” Burley said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022
I led my army northward, rarely having to sidetrack; the emperor himself sent the enemies I was hunting chasing after me.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
He wants them amped up for when he faces jeopardy in criminal trials or if something sidetracks his nomination.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023
“I hate spending energy and time on this kind of stuff because I feel like it sidetracks us,” state Sen. Shane Morigeau, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, said Thursday.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
If the virus surges again, “it can’t be the kind of thing that sidetracks the country,” said Andy Slavitt, who served as a senior adviser on the response before stepping down last year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
"I don't think upward movement in interest rates alone is going to be the catalyst that sidetracks the M&A market," said Morgan Stanley's Miles.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2021
He wanted to ignore it, to go his own way apart, like a casual pilgrim down the forsaken sidetracks.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Don’t get sidetracked by products that you don’t fully understand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The appellate judges, sidetracked by the AI issue, never touched on that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The U.S. economy got sidetracked in February by tariff-related price increases, sluggish sales and the previous month’s Winter Storm Fern, but top executives were also more optimistic that business will improve later in the year.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
It’s a shame he got sidetracked into action-hero franchises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The few researchers who did examine Andean societies were often sidetracked into ideological warfare.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Attention then lurched to another hot-button environmental issue — the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River — further sidetracking efforts to extend wilderness areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Arano was a standout prospect for the Philadelphia Phillies, thrived in 60 appearances in 2018, then hurt his elbow in April 2019, sidetracking his career.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022
“People did it for me,” he says before sidetracking into bafflement over what GIF means.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020
At one point he laments his sidetracking by drawing pictures of the plot line as strands of loops, switchbacks, and squiggles.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016
We called them tenderfeet, that day when Mr. Blake honored our county seat by sidetracking his palatial car.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
